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"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)"
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Ludwig Wittgenstein"Dont get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)"
"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."
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"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
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